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ROBERT \V. VVHITEHURST, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MCDONALD L. \VRENN, OF SAME PLACE.

DRY-GOODS DISPLAY-RACK.

EPECIFECATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 339,081, dated RIEU'CII 30, 1886.

Application filed April :2, 1885.

To all who/'27 may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. \VHrrE- HURs'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry-Goods Dis play-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved drygoods display'rack, the same being a rack of special construction for the supportof rolls or bolts of dry-goods.

The invention will be first described and then claimed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the improved rack or displayer.

Figure 1 is a front view of the displayer; Fig. 2, a side view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of one upright bar. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the hook. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the fasteningplate. Figs. 6 and 7 are views of a modified form of supporting-hook.

The letter A designates a pedestal or base of anysuitablekind; B,an uprightmetal tube, whose lower end is securely fixed in the pedestal. A cross-bar, C, rests upon the upper end of the tube, and said bar supports a fral'ne consisting of two upright bars, (I, joined by cross-bars d/ (1. Each uprightbard has books 6 of special form attached. Each book has two branches, e, which are united at the projecting bent-up end 6. From this projecting upward-pointingpart e the two branches e spread V shape, and each terminates in a downward-bent end, 6 Metal plates f have two notches, f, on one surface, and are placed with the notched side against the upright bars (2, and attached thereto by a screw, 9. Each plate has a central screw-hole and a pointed tang, h, each side of thehole. When the tangs enter the wood of the bar (Z, the single screw 9 is sufficient to. hold it firmly. The notched side of the plate being placed against the bar, two sockets are formed by the notches.

As shown in Figs. l and 3, a notched plate is attached on each of two opposite sides of the bar (Z, and one of the downward-bent ends e of the hook is entered in a notch or socket on one side, and the other end is entered in a notch or socket on the opposite side, and thereby the hook is held firmly. The two Serial X0. 162,999. (No model.)

branches which unite at the V-point incline downward and project forward from the bar, while the book (2 at the V-point has an upward-projecting position. This construction of hook with two branches which spread from the hook part like the two arms of a V results in giving to the hook great stability, because of the lateral bracing action of the two branches 0. When thus formed, the hooks may be made of much lighter metal rod than would otherwise be practicable, whereby the article is cheapened, improved in appearance, and being of less weight is more easily handled in the storeroom. The books can be readily detached by lifting them and releasing the bent ends 0.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, a set of hooks project from the front side and a set from the rear side of the bars d. The hooks on either one of the sides of the frame are intended to work in pairsthat is, two hooks, one on one upright bar and one on the other, are employed to support the same bolt, 1, of drygoods, as indicated in the drawings, and as many bolts of dry-goods may be supported and displayed as there are hooks on both sides of one upright bar. (See Fig. 2.)

The cross-bar C is made fast to the frame d d (Z and a bolt or shaft, 70, passes through the cross-bar (P, the crossbar O, the upright metal tube B, and into the pedestal A, where its lower end is made fast. A nut, Z, on the bolt k, above the upper surface of the cross-bar (IF, confines the parts together. By this construction the frame resting on the upright tube may be turned in a horizontal plane, thereby bringing the books 6, which may be supporting goods on the rear side, around to view on the front side.

A modification in the means of attaching the hook is shown in Figs. 6 and 7. Here the upper end of each branch has an angle-bend, a, and an eye, 1), beyond said angle-bend. W'hen the flat backs of the two eyes 1) are placed against the flat side of the upright bar d, and a screw, q, is passed through each eye into the upright bar, the angle-bend n will keep the hook project-ed properly forward.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the hooks from the ends which are attached to the upright bar incline downwardly, and each pair of hooks has such position with respect to the pair next below it that the one overlaps the other. This is immaterial so far as concerns my invention as hereinafter claimed.

I do not claim a dry-goods displayer consisting of suitable upright bars or standards provided with attached hooks arranged in pairs and having a downwardly inclined straight portion and curved or bent upward at the lower end and in such position that the hooks of one pair will overlap those of the other, as I am not the first inventor thereof.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A dry-goods displayer consisting of two upright bars,each provided with hooks having two branches, which from the hook spread V shape, and each branch made fast to one of the said bars, as set forth.

2. A dry-goods displayerhaving" an upright 1 bar, d, provided on each of two opposite sides with an attached metal plate, f, each plate having a socket and a hook provided with two branches, which spread,the end of one branch being entered in a socket on one side of the said bar, and the end of the other branch in a socket on the oppositeside, as set forth.

3. A dry-goods displayerhaving in combination a pedestal, A, an upright tube, B, having its lower end fixed in the pedestal, a frame composed of two upright bars, d, connected by two crossbars, d and O, the lower one of which rests on the upper end of said tube, and a bolt, 70, which passes through the two cross-bars of the frame and the tube and has its lower end made fast in the pedestal, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT V. WVHITEHURST.

WVit-nesses:

GEO. W. DEY, K. R. COBB. 

